Clothes-line



No. 6l3;242 Patented Nov. I, I898. 'E. u. CAMPBELL CLOTHES LINE PROP ATTACHMENT.

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UNITED STATES PATENT @FFICE.

EMMA H. CAMPBELL, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA;

CLOTH ES-LlNE-PROP ATTACHMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 613,242, datd November 1, 1895;.

Application filed October 16, 1897. Serial No. 655,387 (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EMMA H. CAMPBE L, a citizen of the United States,residing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Clothes Line-Prop Attachments, of which the follow' ing is a specification.

My invention relates to a new and useful improvement in clothes-line-prop attachments, and has for its object to provide a simple, cheap, and effective device of this description which may be secured to the upper end of a clothes-line prop and when in position will serve to grasp and hold a clothesline in proper position relative to the prop,

thus preventing the liability of the line becoming disengaged from the prop and soiling the clothes suspended thereon by permitting them to drag upon the ground.

Afurther object of my invention is to provide means whereby the prop may be engaged with the line or disengaged therefrom without care upon the part of the manipulator.

With these ends in view this invention consists in the details of construction and combination of elements hereinafter set forth and then specifically designated by the claim.

In order that those skilled in the art to which this invention appertains may understand how to make and use the same, the construction and operation will now be described in detai1 ,referring to the accompanying drawing, forming a part of this specification, in which my improvement is shown in elevation attached to the upper end of a clothes-prop.

In carrying out my invention as here embodied I provide a wire A and so bend the same as to produce the jaws B, loop-socket O, and spring-coil D, while the ends of this wire are pointed and driven into the prop, as in- ,dicated at E. As a further means of securing the attachment to the prop the staples F are driven into the prop around the wires, which will securely hold the attachment in place, and the spring-coil D is seated within the crotch or the recess G. From this description it will be seen that to engage a clothesprop provided with my improvement with the line it is only necessary to embrace the line with the jaws B and exert sufficient pressure thereon to force back said jaws against the action of the spring-coil D until the rope passes within the loop-socket C, after which it is obvious that the line will be firmly held within this loop until suficient pressure is exerted upon the prop in the opposite direction to overcome the action of the spring D and permit the jaws to be forced open, and as this requires more than the pressure which would ordinarily be brought upon a prop or line it follows that the line will not become accidentally disengaged from the loop.

The principal advantage of my improve ment is its exceeding simplicity and the fact that it may be attached to any ordinary clothes-prop as now made and when so attached will engage or disengage a line by simply thrusting it thereagainst or withdrawing it therefrom.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and useful is- As a new article of manufacture, a clothesline-prop attachment formed of a single piece of wire bent first to produce a straight arm, then at an acute angle thereto forming one side of a jaw, said side having an offset formed at a short distance from the end thereof, the wire being coiled at the end of said side and then bent upward at an acute angle to said side forming the opposite side of the jaw, the last-named side having an offset formed therein producing with the opposite offset a socket, said piece of wire being finally bent downward forming an arm parallel with the firstnamed arm, said arms having their ends bent inwardly and pointed as and for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my signature in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

EMMA II. CAMPBELL. 

